Kyle Regal on a Suzuki?

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Edited Date/Time 1/25/2012 1:59am
I just noticed he raced Unadilla and today at the Wick on an RMZ450. Is this old news? What happened to his SM deal?
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patrickadizzle 8/27/2011 1:57pm
8/27/2011 1:57pm
BTO sports had a spot open and he took it.
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MXD 8/27/2011 1:58pm
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patrickadizzle wrote:
BTO sports had a spot open and he took it.
Ahhh. Did SM let him out of his contract? How did that work?
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flarider 8/27/2011 2:03pm
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patrickadizzle wrote:
BTO sports had a spot open and he took it.
MXD wrote:
Ahhh. Did SM let him out of his contract? How did that work?
Complicated, but let's just say he was allowed to "quietly depart his position and move to the BBMX/BTOSports/Palmetto Motorsports Suzuki team (sponsored by Engine Ice)"

No press releases
No bells or whistles

"Thank you, have a good day, and good luck"
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Skrany236 8/27/2011 2:10pm
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patrickadizzle wrote:
BTO sports had a spot open and he took it.
MXD wrote:
Ahhh. Did SM let him out of his contract? How did that work?
flarider wrote:
Complicated, but let's just say he was allowed to "quietly depart his position and move to the BBMX/BTOSports/Palmetto Motorsports Suzuki team (sponsored by Engine Ice)" No...
Complicated, but let's just say he was allowed to "quietly depart his position and move to the BBMX/BTOSports/Palmetto Motorsports Suzuki team (sponsored by Engine Ice)"

No press releases
No bells or whistles

"Thank you, have a good day, and good luck"
So is it just a temporary release so he can ride the nationals and gain some exposure or his he gone from SM for good?

It sounds like there is more to the story. Wasn't he close to LB? Maybe they are cleaning house of the LB loyalists or maybe they let him go and they plan on picking him back up come January once SM is on Suzukis too? OR, maybe I'm reading way too much into it and they just let him go.
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txrider44 8/27/2011 2:15pm
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"Well, well, well- look who showed up and raced in the 450 class? None other than Kyle Regal who was, at last glance, racing for JSE/San Manuel Yamaha in the supercross series. Well it appears that Regal, who is a better outdoor rider than indoor rider, got a release from the JSE team and trekked outdoors. And he did pretty good with an eighth. Definitely a strong showing but we knew that anyways right? Regal’s a great motocross rider and it was curious when he signed with a SX-only team but hey, a guys got to eat right? Regal got on the BTOSports.com/BBMX Suzuki team for the last four and amid the Barcia hype, flew under the radar.

From what I hear, the deal came to be because well, Regal probably knew that there was no chance he’s coming back with JSE (does anyone know what is going on with JSE next year? Seriously, I’ve heard everything from coming back with exact same team to Suzuki’s to no San Manuel sponsorship to the team folding completely to James retiring to become a lumberjack. Well maybe I didn’t hear that last one) next year and needed to get his name back out there in front of all the potential team managers for next year. So once the terms of his JSE deal were not able to be met by the team (four nationals), he sought out his release and got it. Although Yamaha was trying to place him back with Valli Yamaha team (can you imagine this happening? Remember Regal-Gate a year ago? I don’t get this crazy, silly sport sometimes) but Kyle and his step-dad Mark went in the BBMX direction.

No matter how it worked out, it’s good to see him back and he rode well to an eighth. That’s the bottom line for Regal and the BBMX team."
http://www.racerxonline.com/2011/08/17/observations-unadilla
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flarider 8/27/2011 2:17pm
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Please do not read anything more into what I wrote.

He was allowed to quietly seek other opportunities, without fanfare, without any public notifications
It was a very complicated situation.

Just take that for what it is. Don't try and read into it or make things up about it (not directed to any particular person)
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MXD 8/27/2011 2:22pm
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flarider wrote:
Please do not read anything more into what I wrote. He was allowed to quietly seek other opportunities, without fanfare, without any public notifications It was...
Please do not read anything more into what I wrote.

He was allowed to quietly seek other opportunities, without fanfare, without any public notifications
It was a very complicated situation.

Just take that for what it is. Don't try and read into it or make things up about it (not directed to any particular person)
Fair enough but when you keep emphasizing for us not to read too much into it, I can't help but do so. It seems like you're overselling it a bit which usually pings my radar that there is more here than meets the eye.

That being said, I'll take your word for it. They let him go so he could race the last 4 nationals. Nothing more, nothing less.
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flarider 8/27/2011 2:24pm
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It was complicated.
It was intentionally done quietly.

That's it. Yamaha did not want to make a big deal about it. That's why there was no PR.
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DownSouth 8/27/2011 2:24pm
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Skrany236 wrote:
broken contract?
Some rumors say the team broke the contract by not racing any nationals. Supposedly the deal included 4 nationals. When it came to the point that there were only 4 races left in the schedule and the team was staying home Kyle walked away and found a team that wanted him.

I have to think there is something to the "4 race" thing since Regal would have back racing sooner if he could but he had to wait until the contract terms were not met. This all based on rumor that the L&M deal did include 4 nationals which at one point I am pretty sure that Stewart said they were racing the first 4.

I would think Regal would be a fool to be part of that team again. It was a bad deal all around for him.
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Skrany236 8/27/2011 3:04pm
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Skrany236 wrote:
broken contract?
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Some rumors say the team broke the contract by not racing any nationals. Supposedly the deal included 4 nationals. When it came to the point that...
Some rumors say the team broke the contract by not racing any nationals. Supposedly the deal included 4 nationals. When it came to the point that there were only 4 races left in the schedule and the team was staying home Kyle walked away and found a team that wanted him.

I have to think there is something to the "4 race" thing since Regal would have back racing sooner if he could but he had to wait until the contract terms were not met. This all based on rumor that the L&M deal did include 4 nationals which at one point I am pretty sure that Stewart said they were racing the first 4.

I would think Regal would be a fool to be part of that team again. It was a bad deal all around for him.
Some rumors say the team had the right to cancel any races at their discretion, therefore did not break any contract.
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Skrany236 wrote:
broken contract?
DownSouth wrote:
Some rumors say the team broke the contract by not racing any nationals. Supposedly the deal included 4 nationals. When it came to the point that...
Some rumors say the team broke the contract by not racing any nationals. Supposedly the deal included 4 nationals. When it came to the point that there were only 4 races left in the schedule and the team was staying home Kyle walked away and found a team that wanted him.

I have to think there is something to the "4 race" thing since Regal would have back racing sooner if he could but he had to wait until the contract terms were not met. This all based on rumor that the L&M deal did include 4 nationals which at one point I am pretty sure that Stewart said they were racing the first 4.

I would think Regal would be a fool to be part of that team again. It was a bad deal all around for him.
Skrany236 wrote:
Some rumors say the team had the right to cancel any races at their discretion, therefore did not break any contract.
If you are who I am guessing you are then I would say that you would definitely know more than I do and your rumors are better than mine!

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